Teacher suspended after comparing The Donald to Nazi leader HITLER

Action taken against Holocaust teacher after he 'drew parallels between Donald Trump and Adolf Hitler’s rise to power'

BY PATRICK KNOX

14th November 2016, 12:28 am

Updated: 14th November 2016, 12:31 am

A HISTORY teacher has been sent home after a parent complained he was linking the US President Elect with Germany’s genocidal leader Adolf Hitler.

Frank Navarro, a teacher with 40 years’ experience, was asked to pack up and go home after his school received an email about a lesson he took.

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A photograph of Frank Navarro which is featured on a petition on change.org to have him reinstated

Mr Navarror, who specialises in the Holocaust, is said to have told his class that Hitler’s persecution of Jews and rise to power has “remarkable parallels” to Donald Trump’s statements about Latinos, Muslims and African Americans during his election campaign.

But after a parent from Mountain View High School near San Francisco got wind of his comments they were so angry they wanted action taken.

Mr Navarror told his local newpaper, the Mercury News, that he then defended his position with school officials.

He said: “I’m not pulling these facts out of my hat. It’s based on experience and work, and if I’m wrong, show me where I’m wrong.

“And then there was silence.”

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Hitler makes a speech at a Nazi rally in 1936

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